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Revolut customers are dealing with a second security headache this month. Attackers socially engineered their way into US brokerage DriveWealth, which handles clearing and execution services for investment firms and previously held brokerage accounts for Revolut users trading American stocks. Historic personal data was stolen in the breach, raising fresh questions about the security of the third-party partnerships that sit quietly behind consumer finance apps.
Shifting to infrastructure, Oracle finds itself in an unusual contractual bind. The company is reportedly obligated to pay data centre investors even when a facility has no electricity supply. It's a striking example of how aggressive deal-making in the cloud infrastructure boom can lock companies into commitments that look very different when the physical realities of power delivery don't keep pace with the paperwork.
And on a more inventive note, a developer has built a fully functional ray tracer written entirely in Brainfuck, one of the most deliberately minimal programming languages ever created. Brainfuck was designed as a thought experiment, not a practical tool, so producing rendered three-dimensional graphics from it is the kind of obsessive technical achievement that reminds you how far human stubbornness can carry a project.
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